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If you still lurk occasionally, Sir @Francois-Wahoo, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and can’t thank you and the others who recommended it enough!
What a great read! I even read snippets of it to my family at times because the sense of humour is just brilliant.
A very sufferlandrian book.
Edit, picked up a couple of Andrew sykes books too, but as he says in one intro, they are more the recycle after reading type of book 
enjoyable fluff like a blog, I thought.
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For those who want to read a classic (and can read French), Henri Desgrange (who started the Tour de France) wrote what is probably the first training manual:
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I haven’t attempted to read any French in some years, however a quick search revealed this text is available on France’s version of Gutenberg. Org, gallica, here
Thanks for the tip Heretic! Reviving my former little bit of French ability is in my to do list and a cycling trip in France on the bucket list. This book looks like a nice incentive for both.
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Memories of the Peloton - Bernard Hinault
It’s out of print, but well worth looking out for a second hand copy - he writes like he rides, very direct, aggressive, opinionated, and thoroughly entertaining.
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ordered
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You would need to be able to read at a very high level. Sample sentence:
Puis encore, le monde vélocipédique, l’existence du coureur faite d’un semblant de gloire, les succès de la piste, tout cela l’ébloui, masqué la triste réalité de choses.
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Yes, my French is quite rusty, c’est la triste réalité de choses 
I can only read about 80% of that sentence. (to put another way, I could not read the whole sentence!)
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Even so, the cycling world, the reality of a rider’s exploits gives an appearance of glory, the success on the track, all that blinds him, hiding the sad reality of the matter.
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His title says it all - the head and the legs. Even today, for all our improved understanding of cycling performance, it still all reduces to that.
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